Your coding agent may have saved your API keys in plain text. Here is how to find and remove them
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Coding agents read .env files as a matter of course, and the tools write what the agent saw to disk: prompt histories, session transcripts, local databases. An API key that passed through a session can stay there in plain text for months. Where the keys go Coding agents read .env files as a matter…
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- 2026-09-30 10:25 · DEV Community — AI
Your coding agent may have saved your API keys in plain text. Here is how to find and remove them